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The Breaking of Bread
That the early Christians observed “the ordinances” (1 Cor. 11:2) of the baptism of believers and the Lord’s Supper is clear to any unbiased reader of the New Testament. The observance of the Breaking of Bread, otherwise spoken of as the Communion, or “the Lord’s Supper” (1 Cor. 11:20), was instituted by the Saviour almost […]
When the Heart Heads Home
I am sitting in the Senai Airport just outside the city of Jahore Bahru in Malasia. The air is sultry. If I wasn’t feeling melancholy (and therefore poetic), I’d say it was merely hot and sticky. The local flora is breathtaking but I do not know the names. I cannot read the signs. I am […]
On the Revelation
The Bible is primarily the revelation of God and especially through the Lord Jesus Christ. Our first introduction to God is as the Creator of the heavens and the earth. In His creation He told us of His greatness and demonstrated His wisdom. But sin ruined all that, and from the moment God dealt with […]
The Ladder to Heaven
“And he [Jacob] dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it” (Genesis 28:12). All men feel the earth and heaven touch at the horizons of the distant past and future; but we ought to […]
Christian Hope
Hope, with uplifted foot set free from earth, Pants for the place of her ethereal birth; On steady wings sails through the immense abyss, Plucks amaranthine joys from bowers of bliss, And crowning the soul, while yet a mourner here, With wreath like those triumphant spirits wear. —Cowper In “The Pilgrim’s Progress,” the immortal dreamer […]
James W. Clapham
It began as a visit, a brief stop on the journey, and became the labor of his life. James Clapham, a New Zealand school teacher, stopped in what was then called Palestine enroute to Britain. But, like the apostle Paul at Athens, the desperate spiritual need gripped his soul and would not let him go. […]
A Sunbeam for Him
Hello, this is Dr. B. calling. I have the results of your blood tests, and I would like to have some more tests done.” “OK. When should I come to your office?” “I would want to have these done in the hospital, Mr. Cameron.” “Will this not take some time to have the arrangements made, […]
The Ribband of Blue
“And that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue . . . that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them” (Numbers 15:38-39). People have always made and used outward aids to their memory–things to enable them to remember. Sir Walter Scott […]